øjeRum, Reversed Cathedral (2022)

Cyclic Law, based in France, occupies an important space as a purveyor of dark ambient and experimental music. And this label’s releases are genuinely experimental, too, rather than simply sounding eclectic in ways which themselves soon become pretty predictable. There’s often a sense of mystery to what CL releases, if that’s not overstating it. And […]

NYIÞ ‘᛬ᚢᛁᛋᚿᛁ•ᚼᛆᛏᛁ•ᚼᚱᛅ᛬’ (2022)

Icelandic band NYIÞ are not particularly forthcoming when it comes to publicity. Very little is known about them, and you often need to look to other artists to get even the barest amount of information about them, but it’s clear that – inside Iceland and beyond – they have a small but dedicated group of […]

Lamia Vox: Alles ist Ufer. Ewig ruft das Meer (2020)

Based in Russia, one-woman ambient project Lamia Vox has been recording for some years now, with first album Sigillum Diaboli emerging in 2013. Magical belief and practice have always underpinned Alina Antonova’s work; with the new release Alles ist Ufer, however, the literary and occult influences are broader in nature, tending towards the idea of […]